Pomegranate

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,310 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 120 mm it can use in a normal year, and 80 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 23–32 °C on average, and survives 8–40 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 42 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 39 °C / 28 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 37 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 36 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 26 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 23 °C / 6 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 28 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 33 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 22 °C
• May 43 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 42 °C / 29 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Nights in January can bring frost. When frost is forecast, water the field lightly in the evening.

Soil

Soil for Pomegranate: 8 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: nitrogen, sulphur and boron.

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of zinc, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of iron.

Likes pH 6.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 27 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

Mandi price through the year (December 2025–October 2026): about ₹9,000 a quintal at mandis in your district.

This week: about ₹12,500 a quintal, the middle of 7 mandis in your state (latest 13 Nov).

Prices are usually best in June.

Typical costs are about ₹1.1 lakh an acre: about half of what a usual harvest earns (2023–2025), as in farm cost surveys. They are spent whatever the harvest.